Professional services firm Deloitte announced a collaboration with NVIDIA and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to accelerate manufacturing simulations to enable industrial digitalization. The collaboration will integrate existing industry knowledge, AI and technology capabilities with the NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE solutions portfolio.
The collaboration is part of Deloitte's Industry Advantage program, a commitment to co-invest and innovate with partners to target industry and sector-specific problems and drive effective change for clients.
The first industry-specific use case Deloitte will enable through this collaboration is a digital twin application built on the NVIDIA Omniverse platform and HPE GreenLake solutions.
Additionally, the solutions portfolio includes HPE Private Cloud AI, a recently announced turnkey full-stack private cloud co-developed by HPE and NVIDIA that is expected to help Deloitte clients accelerate time to value through the co-development of industry-specific generative AI (GenAI) applications and use cases.
“In a fast-moving market, GenAI can unlock game-changing insights and enormous business value, but its success requires an agile approach rooted in data modernization, with an industry-specific lens aimed at business transformation,” said Jim Rowan, principal and AI market activation leader at Deloitte Consulting, explaining the rationale for the new collaboration.
“As leaders seek high-performance enterprise AI and data solutions to address their most critical business challenges, our collaboration with HPE and NVIDIA is a natural next step in our efforts to provide clients with actionable insights backed by full-stack accelerated computing.”
The new application uses Deloitte's rapid use case development methodology and accelerators to enable manufacturing organizations at any stage of digital maturity to extract and manage the data needed to pioneer, design and deploy manufacturing simulation.
As an example, HPE notes that organizations can incorporate new, previously undiscovered data to simulate outcomes, test the efficiency of new greenfield facility designs, predict potential problems, develop and test new products or different chemical compositions, and other uses.
Deloitte @ Wichita's Smart Factory will form the company's client experience center with an ecosystem of 18 solution providers and futurists, and will serve as a proving ground for organizations to experience the impact of Industry 4.0.
The center is also designed for companies to experience spatial computing and digital twin services from Deloitte's Unlimited Reality practice, which helps manufacturers adopt industrial digitization applications and drive the next wave of digital transformation, with a special focus on enterprise 3D simulation powered by NVIDIA Omniverse core technologies.
“We are seeing manufacturers prioritizing improved data extraction capabilities to run future-looking simulations that de-risk decisions to address today's complex ecosystem,” added Tim Gauss, principal and smart manufacturing business leader at Deloitte Consulting.
“Our collaboration with HPE and NVIDIA breaks down typical barriers in developing AI-focused solutions, especially in managing vast amounts of industrial data from various sources, bringing critical information to the edge.
“As organizations continue their transition to software-defined manufacturing, this collaboration will enable manufacturers to integrate siloed systems to improve decision-making, security, safety, predictable outcomes and more.”
In addition to the initial manufacturing simulation use case, the collaboration will result in additional industry-specific use cases that use NVIDIA accelerated computing technology and HPE Private Cloud AI capabilities for GenAI, powered by NVIDIA AI Enterprise software.
“Our expanded collaboration with Deloitte, NVIDIA and HPE to deliver industry-specific AI solutions accelerates time to value with AI,” said Mark Waters, senior vice president, Customer Success, Services and Solutions, HPE. “The jointly developed AI solutions simplify the AI lifecycle, enabling enterprises to accelerate the development of AI use cases that deliver clear business value.”
Alvin DaCosta, vice president of NPN Consulting at NVIDIA, added: “Generative AI is transforming every industry, and companies are looking for full-stack infrastructure and software to accelerate adoption. Combining cutting-edge NVIDIA and HPE compute, software and services with Deloitte's industry expertise will help companies accelerate their adoption of generative AI.”
